What Is Cloud Computing?

Question by Henry B.: What is cloud computing?
I keep hearing this term but my understanding is, sorry about the pun, a bit cloudy. Does this just mean hosted services like in the old days before we all had personal computers?

Best answer:

Answer by jamesmicoffSort of. The goal is to have everything live on the WEB verses the local machine.

eg: if you send email to your friend who is in other part of your world, your email hopped different places, like first it will go to your modem/router and then through cable or satellite to your Internet provider, than it goes through different devices and will reach your friends computer, all that route is reffed to cloud.